VLM-Assisted Continual learning for Visual Question Answering in Self-Driving

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00843v1
• Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2025 16:27:44 GMT
• Title: VLM-Assisted Continual learning for Visual Question Answering in Self-Driving
• Authors: Yuxin Lin, Mengshi Qi, Liang Liu, Huadong Ma,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel approach for solving the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task in autonomous driving. In autonomous driving, VQA plays a vital role in enabling the system to understand and reason about its surroundings. We present a novel continual learning framework that combines Vision-Language Models with selective memory replay and knowledge distillation.
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• Abstract: In this paper, we propose a novel approach for solving the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task in autonomous driving by integrating Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with continual learning. In autonomous driving, VQA plays a vital role in enabling the system to understand and reason about its surroundings. However, traditional models often struggle with catastrophic forgetting when sequentially exposed to new driving tasks, such as perception, prediction, and planning, each requiring different forms of knowledge. To address this challenge, we present a novel continual learning framework that combines VLMs with selective memory replay and knowledge distillation, reinforced by task-specific projection layer regularization. The knowledge distillation allows a previously trained model to act as a "teacher" to guide the model through subsequent tasks, minimizing forgetting. Meanwhile, task-specific projection layers calculate the loss based on the divergence of feature representations, ensuring continuity in learning and reducing the shift between tasks. Evaluated on the DriveLM dataset, our framework shows substantial performance improvements, with gains ranging from 21.40% to 32.28% across various metrics. These results highlight the effectiveness of combining continual learning with VLMs in enhancing the resilience and reliability of VQA systems in autonomous driving. We will release our source code.

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